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A must read investigation on voter suppression. Sumedha had visited 4000 homes and looked at electoral rolls of more than 5000 booths.

🧵Months before BJP won Farrukhabad seat by 2,768 votes, a BJP MLA sent a letter to the district officers requesting deletion of 'bogus voters' from 4 booths. They were all Muslims, Yadavs & Jatavs voters. In two weeks, over 270 voters were deleted. newslaundry.com/2024/12/20/in-…

A not-so-forgotten world of possibilities and wishful realities

In other news (and barely reported anywhere in the UK, Europe, US etc), Indonesia joined the BRICS group BRICS News on Monday. A short 🧵

📷Registration Open📷 The Digital Platforms & Women's Economic Empowerment and SERI are hosting 📷️SERI-D Conference 2025📷️ Keynote📷: Taryn Dinkelman , University of Notre Dame Chair: Farzana Afridi 📷6&7 Feb'25📷 📷ISI, Delhi 📷bit.ly/3BWirSl (📷Feb 2) #econtwitter

New working paper.

Once in a while its okay to say we are proud of the work we do. This full-page data package explaining how Delhi's centre of (political) gravity has shifted from its core to the periphery is a fit case. Done with Abhishek Jha & Nishant and produced by Jamie Mullick 1/n

Most sensible and important thing you will read on foreign aid and USAID.

Hiring RA on a project on the criminal justice system in India. The RA will work closely with me, Sutanuka Roy (Sutanuka Roy), and Priyama Majumdar (Priyama Majumdar). Econ RA Listings Link to JD: dropbox.com/scl/fi/gul67sz…

I'm recruiting a PhD student in political economy & comparative political behavior at Ahmedabad University (elections, political parties, federalism, welfare, or climate) We believe in interdisciplinary work & offer great training in models of political economy & applied stats. Pls apply!

I am hiring a research assistant at EPIC-India. Please apply if you are interested in environmental econ and have strong geospatial and statistical skills! WFH possible but must be based out of India.

CAG report on Delhi's air pollution monitors confirms what newslaundry found 2 months ago: that 9 out of 10 monitors are covered with trees, buldgs in close proximity, thereby skewing pollution readings

Call for Papers for the upcoming Annual SERI conference (organized by SNU) is now out: tinyurl.com/yufj3w96 Submit papers here: tinyurl.com/34p3nkp3 Submission deadline: 1st June, 2025 Lightning session for PhD students. Economists and adv PhDs submit your best work!

Back after spring break! Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Deepti Sharma Ahmedabad University who works on topics related to gender and development, particularly in India

I really enjoyed this chat with Jen St. Denis to get a better understanding of how tech elites in Canada are trying to import Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics and set up their own DOGE to gut the Canadian government. They can’t be allowed to succeed.

Since when do universities review the slides of their speakers and cancel the night before? More details needed than offered in this story but I don’t care what the slides say—NYU should not police or censor invited speakers.

Want some respite from the mayhem? Here is a series of essays on 29 distinguished Indian economists from the past, whose work still informs our present. More entries will be added in the coming months. What follows is a thread on the individual entries. azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/distinguished-…

China considers the McMahon line a British imposition. When it annexed Tibet, in 1959, it extended its claim over the North East Frontier Agency—as Arunachal was called at the time—declaring it part of south Tibet. Its leader, Mao Zedong, would often say that it was China’s

EXCLUSIVE: Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but was waved off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program. President Trump made his decision after months of internal debate

Saba Naqvi Aunohita Mojumdar Rema Nagarajan Veena Joint statement by journalist bodies on blocking of 4 pm news -- Such actions set a dangerous precedent, stifling discourse apart from having an overall chilling effect. The public deserves answers, not censorship.